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‘Delta 1943, Cancel Takeoff’: Wrong Turn Results in Near Miss at J.F.K.


A close collision at Kennedy International Airport on Friday night in which an American Airlines plane crossed the runway in front of an oncoming Delta Air Lines plane appears to have occurred as the planes American Airlines engineers misinterpreted direction from air traffic controllers, radar recordings and audio recordings of those conversations only.

Delta flight in 1943, bound for the Dominican Republic, had to abort its takeoff. None of its 145 passengers were injured.

American Airlines Flight 106, bound for London with 137 passengers on board, was traveling along a taxiway around 8:45 p.m. when it approached a point where two runways intersect perpendicularly, according to the report. Ross Feinstein, former spokesman for both Departments of Transportation. The Security Administration and American Airlines, who said he reviewed publicly available radar and logs.

Delta aircraft waiting to take off at Left of Runway 4, intersecting Left of Runway 31.

An air traffic controller can be heard asking the American plane, a Boeing 777, to “cross Left of Runway 31”, which would require it to turn right before turning around to line up for departure on Runway 4 Left behind the Delta aircraft.

The American pilot confirmed, “Go left 31.”

Another air traffic controller told the Delta plane, a Boeing 737, that it was ready to take off. Delta pilot confirmed: “Ready to take off, Left Runway 4, Delta 1943.”

But the US flight, instead of turning right to cross Runway 31 Left, turned left and then right and went straight across Runway 4 Left as the Delta plane began to take off, Feinstein said.

In an audio clip, an air traffic controller can be heard utter a four-letter word. A controller ordered the American plane, “Stay where you are!” and another controller said quickly twice, “Delta 1943, abort takeoff!”

The Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement Sunday that the Delta plane arrived at a “safe stop” about 1,000 feet from where the US flight had crossed the runway.

On the recording, after the Delta pilot confirmed that he was aborting take-off, a Kennedy controller told the American pilots, “maybe the pilot went off track.”

One of the American pilots, trying to understand what had happened, asked the tower, “The last time we were given permission, we were allowed to cross, right?”

The controller replied that the US aircraft was indeed allowed to cross, but it was allowed to cross Left Track 31 and proceed to the starting point of Left Track 4 for departure, instead of crossing Left 4 and go to left end 31.

“You should have left Runway 4 on the left,” said the operator. “You are currently 31 Fruits short.”

FAA says disaster in progress – and prevented – detected with help from a system detect and display the movement of aircraft and vehicles on runways and taxiways at Kennedy and about three dozen other US airports, using radar and motion sensors.

It declined to provide further details of the incident unrelated to a national issue two days earlier Thousands of flights have been delayed after a system the FAA uses to send safety warnings to pilots failed.

Delta said that after the takeoff was canceled, the Delta plane returned to the gate, passengers disembarked and the flight was delayed overnight. The safety of our customers and crew is always Delta’s number one priority,” the airline said in a statement on Sunday. “We apologize to our customers for the inconvenience and delay in their trip.”

The airline declined to comment on Sunday, saying in an email it would switch to the FAA

The American flight continued to Heathrow Airport. It come 13 minutes early.

The National Transportation Safety Board said on Monday that it had opened an investigation and that it would take statements from the crew, gather flight recording information and review air traffic control data. and is expected to issue a preliminary report in a few weeks.

However, information about American Airlines flight recorders from the cockpit may not be available: The devices only recorded two hours of recording, and the flight from New York to London took seven hours. The safety board has been urging the FAA for years to require 25-hour recording capabilities, note in a 2018 report that “unfortunately, recent safety investigations have been thwarted because relevant parts of the recording were overwritten.”

Mr. Feinstein noted that federal regulations ask the aircraft operator to notify safety immediately in the event of a “runway intrusion” like the one that occurred on Friday.

“Perhaps part of the investigation that the NTSB will look at is why the plane decided to depart and whether any appropriate notice occurred,” he said.

Mr. Feinstein said Friday’s incident was the closest he was aware of at a US airport since 2017, when an Air Canada jet landed in San Francisco. arrived within a few feet of a collision with an aircraft on the ground.

“This isn’t common in America,” he said, “but the reason why it’s taken so seriously is to make sure it doesn’t happen again.”

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